amy y goodman: boots riley, didirector of ororry to bobother you," we will be back with him in a m minute  >>  amy goododman: this is democracy y now! we r returned to boots r riley, who has justst directed his first film, "sorry to bother you." this is s a searingg anticapitalist film. one of the striking characters is armie hammer who plays a kind of elon musk or jeff bezos character, the mastermindnd behind worryry free, ththat profifits off of f slave. talk about his charactcter, how you chose armie hammer from the armand hahammer family. bootots riley: let's put it l like this, armie hammer is a wonderful person and gave so much to making this film happen. before we talk about his skill level and mastery of his craft, he was on a tour for pixar because he was a voice in one of the "cars" movies. he wanted to go over a line with lakeith and he made pixar fly him from london where they were promoting the movie, they flew hihim to london for a day and to oakland, and back, just because he wanted to give the film his all. i chose him because armie hammer is such a lovable dude and real

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amy goodman: from pacifica, this is "democracy now!" >> use your white voice.e. >>>> ththis is langston from m regal. >>>> as always, we will be gettg that out to you right away. amy ygoodman: today, we s sped the day with boots riley, director o of "sorry to bother youou,"

amy: this isis democracy now!, demomocracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. juan: we turn now to the drama that unfolded monday when news outlet axios reported that deputy attorney yeneral rod rosenstein had verbally resigned amid mounting tension over the ininvestigation by special counl robert mueller into russia's role in the 2016 presidential election. some of the confusion began last week, whenen rosenstein and whie house chief of staff john kelly met at the white house hours after "the new york times" reported that rosenstein had suggested secretly recording trump in the white house and discussed recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th amendment to remove trump from office for being unfit. but for now, rosenstein still has his job. white house spokeswoman sarah sanders tweeted monday that trump and rosenstein "had an extended conversation to discuss the recent news stories." trump, who is in new york for the u.n. general assembly, told reporters he would meet with rosenstein on thursday when he returns to washington. pres. trump: i'm meeting with rod rosenstein on thursdayay whn i geget back frorom all of these meetetings. we will be meeting at the whi

y mind. amy: we will speak to penn state professor amira rose davis. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. president trump's national security adviser john bolton threatened sanctions against internationanal criminal c court judges if they proceed with an investigation into alleged war crimes committed by u.s. troops in afghanistan. >> we will ban its judges and prosecutors from entering the united states. we will sanction their funds in the u.s. mental system, and we will prosecute them in the u.s. criminal system. we will do the same for any company or state that assist in icc investigation of americans. amy: that was national security adviser john bolton speaking during a speech to the federalist society in washington, d.c., monday. bolton also announced the trump adminiration is osing thth palestine liberation organization office in washington, d.c. the plo called the move a dangerous escalation, saying it shs -- "the u.s. is willing to disband the international system in order to protect israeli crimes and attacks against the land and people of palestine, as well as against peace and